MY wife and I having seated ourselves in a train at D—, I inquired from two fellow-passengers if we were right for W —. “Yes,” was the reply, “W — is the terminus.”
After thanking the lady who answered for her information, I said, “It is well for us to know we are right for the Great Terminus, is it not?”
For a few moments there was silence. Then the other passenger said, “It is difficult to know which is the right way, for there are so many.”
“I was just thinking,” I said, “what a blessing it is that God has not left us in doubt, for Jesus Himself said, ‘I am the Way,’ and not only did He say, ‘I am the Way,’ but He said, ‘I am the Door,’ which makes it very clear, for just as you entered this compartment by the door, so are those saved who enter by Jesus, who is ‘The Door.’ ‘FAITH’ (which is trusting or believing) is the step through the door. ‘His death upon the cross purchased the ticket, which gives us a righteous title to go to be with Him forever.”
Having arrived at their destination, I handed to each of them little gospel books, and entreated them to rest only in Jesus, who is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
If the reader has had the same difficulties, may we assure you on the authority of Scripture that there are not many ways, nor are there many means by which this great terminus of Eternity can be reached.
Blessed be God, He is waiting and longing to save poor guilty sinners, His gospel is sent forth to whosoever will, but salvation can only be had in ONE way — through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who “died for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.”
A. S.